Nassif's grilling continues for fifth day

Clinton Nassif, Kebble's former security head, has been in the witness box for five days - in return for indemnity from criminal prosecution.

Laurance Hodes, Agliotti’s advocate, spent a lot of his cross-examination of Nassif grilling him over discrepancies in the statements he gave the scorpions.

Hodes put it to Nassif that on the night Kebble was shot and killed; he arrived on the scene "20 minutes before Agliotti."

"My instructions are Mr Nassif that the accused (Agliotti) found out about the shooting for the first time by police reservist Robert van der Merwe, who told him it was in the vicinity of the Wilds in Killarney.

“He actually drove to the deceased’s house to ensure he wasn’t there, and only then drove to Killarney. If he was in on the plan and knew the location... then why would he go to the deceased’s house and secondly why would he go to the wrong place?

“It must be that he wasn’t involved in the planning, if he went to the wrong place," Hodes put to Nassif.

Nassif responded to Hodes: "I am telling you today, however big or small his involvement was - he was involved. We were lucky to pass him on the highway."

Hodes continued: "If the accused was already in Killarney, close to Melrose and he phoned you, can you explain how you got from Glenn Vista ( the south of Johannesburg) to the shooting, 20 minutes ahead of him?

“He was in the northern suburbs already, no matter how fast and fancy your car was how did you get there 20 minutes together? You both came off the off-ramp together.

Nassif said: "I arrived at the scene first; I don’t remember when he arrived."

It is day eight of the Brett Kebble murder trial, in which convicted druglord Glenn Agliotti is the main accused and the case continues.